Is Keith Ablow running for US Senate?

I have asked him (0.00 / 0)

Let's see if I get a reply.

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by: Rob "EaBo Clipper" Eno @ Fri Feb 01, 2013 at 19:26:33 PM UTC

Yes, Keith Ablow is running! (0.00 / 0)

BOSTON,  Feb. 4, 2013  PRNewswire -- Dr. Keith Ablow, who has publicly announced his interest in the Senate seat being vacated by  John Kerry  (D-MA) made his intentions plainer today. He will run if the party unifies around him, without a primary.

"We face an unprecedented assault on the Constitution and our individual liberties. If the Republican Party in  Massachusetts  and the Republican National Committee ask me to run at this time, and offer their support in that effort, I will run. If they support another candidate, I will work hard to elect that candidate. If that candidate should lose, I will, in all likelihood, again offer to be a candidate for Senate from  Massachusetts  in 2014, under the same conditions. The Party can't afford to spend precious resources on a divisive primary. If all the leaders of the Party united around me - to preclude a primary, I would run. Such unity looks improbable at this time."

SOURCE  Dr.  Keith Ablow

He'd be a great candidate, he'd force the Democrats to reveal how crazy their positions are. Can the Committees ask him to run? It's looking like there won't be a primary anyway.

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by: John Howard @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 01:13:07 AM UTC

Big Assumption (0.00 / 0)

If any one or all of Dan Winslow (assuming tomorrow's announcement is that he is running), Gabriel Gomez (another assumption), and Doug Bennett get 10,000 certified signatures there will be a primary....again, assuming the good doctor meets the aforementioned requirement.

Anyone can be asked.  Anyone can declare.  Only those passing the signature threshold matter & then we may or may not have a primary.

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by: BNCordeiro @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 01:21:57 AM UTC

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Two words: Marisa Defranco (0.00 / 0)

Signatures mean nothing, it's all about the 15%.

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by: John Howard @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 01:30:46 AM UTC

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15%? (0.00 / 0)

This is a special election, not a State Convention.  There is no 15% rule!  

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by: BNCordeiro @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 01:45:41 AM UTC

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Better example (0.00 / 0)

The 2008 candidacy of Jim Ogonowski that failed to reach the 10,000 certified signature threshold.

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by: BNCordeiro @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 01:49:46 AM UTC

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Oh! I wonder if Ablow knew that. (0.00 / 0)

I see. Yeah, I don't remember worrying about the 15% in 2010, now that I think of it. I see now, I've done some googling. So regular elections have to get 15% of the delegates at a state convention but a special election doesn't. Interesting. (Btw, how many are there, and who are they?)  

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by: John Howard @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 01:59:49 AM UTC

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A few thousand (0.00 / 0)

Delegates are elected at local caucuses for those organized town & ward committees.  The amount of delegates per organized group depend on a mathematical formula that will be determined by the Rules Committee for the 2014 MassGOP State Convention.  It's basically based off of a percentage of the number of votes for governor.  

They will assemble in March 2014 and it's their 15% that need to be met.  If you'll recall, Christy Mihos fell short in 2010.

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by: BNCordeiro @ Tue Feb 05, 2013 at 02:19:52 AM UTC

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